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Over 300 passengers miraculously make it out alive after Japan Airlines plane catches fire after possible midair collision

Horrifying video showed the Japan Airlines plane suddenly burst into flames after touching down at Haneda International Airport — with the fireball spreading across the runway as it came to a stop.

Five crew members on the coast guard plane died while their captain was critically injured, officials told NHK.

All 379 people on the passenger plane managed to escape despite the jet becoming fully engulfed. However, at least 17 passengers were injured, according to the Metropolitan Police Department, which did not elaborate on their conditions.

“The entire cabin was filled with smoke within a few minutes,” Swedish passenger Anton Deibe, 17, told Aftonbladet.

“We threw ourselves down on the floor. Then the emergency doors were opened and we threw ourselves at them.

“The smoke in the cabin stung like hell. It was a hell,” added Deibe, who was traveling with his parents and sister.

Footage and images shared on social media showed passengers shouting inside the smoke-filled cabin and running across the tarmac away from an evacuation slide.“I felt a boom like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed,” a passenger on the JAL flight told Kyodo news agency. “I saw sparks outside the window and the cabin filled with gas and smoke.”

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed relevant agencies to coordinate to assess the damage, according to his office.

Haneda, one of Tokyo’s two main airports, has closed all runways following the incident, a spokesperson said.

The coast guard aircraft was en route to Niigata Airport to deliver aid to those caught up in a powerful earthquake that struck on New Year’s Day, killing at least 48 people, military officials said.

With Post wires

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